2021 Child Care & Early Learning Recommendations
November 19, 2020 – ECFC signs on to recommendations urging the Administration to make child care and early learning a national priority The strength...
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COVID-19
Impact of Media and Video on Young Children
On Thursday, November 12th, ECFC and Media Impact Funders co-hosted a discussion on the impact of media and video on young children, with an eye...
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EC Sector Areas of Need & Philanthropic Opportunities During the Pandemic
Keeping our guiding principles in mind, the following are some areas of need in the early childhood sector that we’ve been hearing that early childhood...
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COVID Transmission in Child Care Programs
On November 5th, Walter Gilliam joined us to discuss the Yale University study recently published in the journal Pediatrics, which found that exposure to child care...
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State and Local Budgets – the Next COVID-19 Battlefront
The pandemic and economic fallout are placing significant strains on state and local budgets, costing millions to contain the disease and driving sharp declines in...
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Weekly EC Funders Call: Early Learning Experiences of Young Children & Pre-K Funding Trends
On September 17th, Lori Connors-Tadros, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), joined us to consider findings from a recent NIEER research...
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The Pandemic’s Impact on Families, Children & Early Care Providers
The pandemic’s impact on families with young children includes not only issues of health and child care, but also access to basic needs. Researchers, funders...
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Philanthropic Responses to Emergency EC & Child Care Needs
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many states closed child care programs with the exception of limited emergency child care sites – some closing all child...
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Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
ECE programs have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Many may not survive the pandemic. A recent Inside Philanthropy article...
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What’s Next for Child Care: Paths to a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery
On this week’s COVID-19 peer call for EC funders, we considered paths to sustainable and equitable child care recovery and the role of Community Development...
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